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Definition service

Etymology 1

From Middle English servise, from Old French servise (French service), from the verb servir, from Latin servitium (compare Portuguese serviço, Italian servizio, Norman sèrvice, Spanish servicio), from servus (“servant; serf; slave”). Displaced the native Old English þenest.

Noun

service (countable and uncountable, plural services)

1. An act of being of assistance to someone.
2. (economics) The practice of providing such a service as economic activity.
3. A department in a company, an organization, a government department, etc.
4. (computing) A function that is provided by one program or machine for another.
5. The state of being subordinate to or employed by an individual or group
6. The military.
7. A set of dishes or utensils.
8. (sports) The act of initially starting, or serving, the ball in play in tennis, volleyball, and other games.
9. A religious rite or ritual.
10. (law) The serving, or delivery, of a summons or writ.
11. (Israel, West Bank, also in Jordan, Lebanon and Syria) A taxi shared among unrelated passengers, each of whom pays part of the fare; often, it has a fixed route between cities.
12. A musical composition for use in churches.
13. (obsolete) Profession of respect; acknowledgment of duty owed.
14. (nautical) The materials used for serving a rope, etc., such as spun yarn and small lines.

Verb

service (third-person singular simple present services, present participle servicing, simple past and past participle serviced)

1. (transitive) To serve.
2. (transitive) To perform maintenance.
3. (transitive, agriculture, euphemistic) To inseminate through sexual intercourse
4. (transitive, vulgar) To perform a sexual act.

Etymology 2

Noun

service (plural services)

1. service tree

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